A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) across, which makes it slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with ... 930 miles of Io's surface – equal the distance from New York City to Orlando, Florida. The craft's second ultra-close ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the solar system: Jupiter. At mid-twilight, roughly 45 minutes after sundown ...

A NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ... 27, 2024, the spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument detected a massive ...

There’s more to come in February, with Jupiter and the Moon "getting cosy" in the sky tonight. Between February 5-8, the gas giant planet will sit close to a waxing gibbous Moon – in its phase ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The moon, Jupiter, and the star Aldebaran will be very close with each other Thursday night. February is already the month of romance and the moon will kiss Jupiter with ...